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Village Theatre marks 100th anniversary

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on Nov 10, 2013

The year-long celebration of Danville's Village Theatre's 100th anniversary will culminate Saturday, Nov. 16, with "The Grand Engagement." The Grand Engagement will include a Gala, an Opening Reception for the current art exhibit at the gallery and a Centennial Presentation.

Posted by Chris
a resident of Monte Vista High School
on Nov 10, 2013 at 9:32 pm

Many memories from the past at the Village Theater! I was totally freaked at the matinee's on Saturdays - 10 cents - in the late fifties, and I spent the night in my parents bed recovering from the scary "Blood Rust" and the "Crawling Eye". Great red suckers and Jujubees for 5 cents and the loges always full of the older kids making out.
My grandfather worked at the San Ramon Valley Chapel next door and helped with the temporary morgue that was set up in the upstairs of the theater after the F-27 plane crash out on Tassajara Rd. from a flight from Las Vegas...many silver dollars at the crash site reported but no survivors.

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